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Startup No 201   TIMBA (The Interesting MBA) is an online program that teaches the entire Business School curriculum in 1,000 stories and videos available as TED talks, YouTube videos and even TikTok footage. Participants vote for the most interesting material in a "Trip Advisor"-style ratings system that determines whether content remains on the programme or gets dropped. The program hires actors to produce in-house videos on a minority of subjects and theoretical topics that have not been covered on existing platforms. Auditing the TIMBA program is free of charge but participants who want to receive a certificate of completion pay a fee. Such participants are not required to take exames but have to re-watch key parts of the content once or twice again months later, to ensure memory retention in line with the "forgetting curve" timeline. CEO QUOTE "Don't we all have horrible memories of the drudgery of school and university courses. TIMBA is the exact oppo...

Startup No 198 - #StartupRealities 2020 series DecentralizedTutoring is a global online education company that supports university students enrolled in online programmes by organising local physical meetup study groups and project groups supervised by qualified tutors. The company works with a range of students enrolled in online courses delivered by Code Academy, Coursera, EdX, FutureLearn, Kadenze, Khan Academy, Skillshare, Udacity and Udemy. Online MBA programmes such as ThePowerMBA, Quantic MBA and AltMBA also have their community groups and team project groups supervised by the company. CEO QUOTE "Everything is moving online these days. Yet, human interaction remains most intimate and efficient in face-to-face format. Students appreciate both the support of our tutors and the physical venues where we organise group meetups in the neighbourhood of the student. Convenience, teamwork and intimacy are our keywords." - said DecentralizedTutoring founder and CEO Decima Tuton...

StartupRealities No 124 KidsExplained is an online education and media company that uses YouTube and TikTok videos to educate children, with the role of presenter or host being played by children. The company maintains that children pay more attention to what other children say, rather than to adults, as children are usually fed up with the orders that adults give. CEO QUOTE "KidsExplained democratises education. Who said that only adults can be the teachers? If adults prepare the material, children can easily present on video and can even have some input into the customisation of the material. Furthermore, children are more enthusiastic presenters than adults and this enthusiasm can be contagious and lead to some viral videos." - said KidsExplained founder and CEO Kieran Exposito. Children in an outdoor classroom in Angola (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 59 IndustryInsideOut is an online education company that produces training courses on the operations and finance models of different industries and sectors with the aim of training entrepreneurs and potential COOs, CFOs and CEOs. The courses of the company allow people interested in a given industry (e.g. airlines or concrete production or art galleries) to gain basic or more in-depth knowledge of all operational aspects of the sector so that they can start running a business in the given field. CEO QUOTE "How many hairdressers own the business they work in? The answer is just a few. What stops the rest from setting up shop themselves? The answer is the daunting uncertainty of running a business. Here is where we step in to help. Our online course: The Hair and Barber Salon IndustryInsideOut can give all these skillful people the wherewithal to run their own business. We promote entrepreneurship and empower people: in this sector and in several hundred oth...